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BY @widlrardm Oct. 7, 1941. A. A. LARSON SPRING SASH HANGER -Fi led Jan. 17, 1940 Patented Oct. 7, 1941 2,258,062 SPRING SASH HANGER August A. Larson, Sterling, 111., assignor to Chas. 0. Larsonv 00., Sterling, 111., a corporation of Illinois Application January 17, 1940, Serial No. 314,218

10 Claims. (01. 16-471) This invention relates to devices for hanging window sashes, such as screen sashes, 'or. even storm sashes in place in windows.

Generally stated, the object of the. invention is to provide a novel and improved constructed and arrangement whereby a sash of this kind can be hung from the inside with more ease and convenience than was heretofore possible with prior devices for this purpose.

It is alsoan object to provide certain novel details and features of construction tending to increase. the general efiiciency and desirability of sash hanger devices of this particular character.

To the foregoing and other useful ends, the invention consists in matters hereinafter set forth and claimed and shown in the accompanying drawing, in which- Fig. 1 is an outside perspective of a window equipped with a sash hungin place by means of devices embodying the principles of the invention.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged fragmentary view from the inside;

Fig. 3 is an enlarged horizontal fragmentary section on line 33 in Fig. 2 of the drawing.

Fig. 4 is an enlarged vertical fragmentary sec-.- tion on line 4-4 in Fig; 2 of the drawing.

Fig. 5 is a perspective of one of the parts of the device shown and described.

Fig. 6 is a similar View of another part.

As thus illustrated, the invention comprises a pair of hooks I inserted vertically and upwardly into the window frame, one at each side of the window, with the throat of the hook facing away from the outside and toward the inside of the building. 1

The sash frame 2 is provided with a pair of open clips 3, each clip being directly below one of the hooks .l, with the open side of each clip facing toward the other side of the window. Each clip has a'hole 4 for a screw 5 which is inserted into the sash frame. In addition, the base of each clip, thus provided with a screw hole, is formed with a flange 6 having a curved edge that fits the curved edge I of the free end of the clip, so that the clips can be punched out of a strip of metal with practically a minimum of waste. This formation provides a pair of points 8 for the base of each clip, which points enter the wood of the sash frame When the screw 5 is tightened.

It will be seen that each side of the screen is also provided with a screw 9 disposed a distance directly below the clip 3, previously described.

This screw 9 has a head that is just small enough to pass through the hole In in the sheet metal and hook-shaped handle H, and the upper end of this handle is provided with an eye l2 formed lfoy curving and rolling the metal into the desired orm.

At each side of the window, there is a vertically disposed coil spring l3 having its upper end provided with an eye I4 for engagement with the hook I, and the lower end of each spring being provided with aneye l5 for engagement with the eye I2 of one of the two handle pieces ll, previously described. I

In use, the two hooks I are properly inserted, as shown and described. The screws 5 and 9 are then inserted into the sash frame 2, the screws 5 to hold the two clips 3 in place, and the screws 9 in position to project through the holes IU of the handles ll during the assembling of the two spring hanger devices on the window frame and on the sash frame. The two springs l3 are then hooked at their upper ends on the hooks l, and are then moved sidewise or laterally to bring them tightly between the clips 3 and the face of the sash. Each spring is easily and conveniently applied with one hand, while the other hand is grasping the clip 3 at the other side of the window. After the spring is hooked in place at its upper end, and moved laterally into holding engagement with the clip 3, the hook-shaped handle ll of such spring is then pulled down- .ward until the head of the screw 9 extends through the hole III in the sheet metal handle I I, and when the latter is released it moves upward a little to bring the lower edge of the hole In under the fiat inside face of the screw head. In this Way, each spring is attached by using only one hand, while the other hand is being used to hold the screen or other sash against falling out of the window. Thus, there is very little danger of the handles being accidentally struck in a manner to release them from the screws 9 after the sash is hung in place. The freedom of the springs to enter and engage and then disengage the clips 3, by lateral movement of each spring, after it is hung on the hook I at ts upper end, is important and advantageous, as it is conducive to the fastening of each spring in place by merely using one hand, whereby one person can hang the sash from the inside of the window.

Looking at Fig. 4 of the drawing, it will be seen that when the spring 13 is pressed sidewise or laterally between the clip 3 and the sash 2, the greater portion of the spring is vertical and tight against the face of the sash, while the upper end portion of the spring is tilted outward a distance away from the sash. In this way, it will be understood, the clips 3 cooperate with the springs to hold the upper end of the sash tightly in place, and at the same time there is enough pull inwardly on the sash to keep its lower end in place. Hooks or latching devices can be used for the lower ends of the sashes, if desired. If not, the lower ends of the sashes are properly held in place, but quite yieldingly so, whereby the lower end of any sash can be pushed outwardly if such is necessary or desirable, without the necessity of unhooking or unlatching the lower end of any sash.

In addition, it will be seen that the parts of the spring hangers are comparatively simple and inexpensive to manufacture, and that they are easily attached to the window frame and the sash without the necessity of using any skilled labor.

It is obvious that the clip 3 does not need to be flexible or resilient, in order to tightly grip the coil spring l3, for the latter has enough resilience to permit it to be forced in tightly between the clip and the sash, as shown in the drawing. The coils of the spring will be distorted, slightly, as the spring is forced into position in the clip, and the spring will then expand laterally, and in this way the clipis formed to prevent accidental displacement of the spring therefrom, as it requires some force to press the spring into the clip, and some force to remove it therefrom, and in each case the resilienc of the spring is sufficient for the purpose. In this way, when the sash is installed or put in place,.the upper end of the spring engages the hook 1 before the spring engages the clip 3, and after the spring is gripped and held by the clip, the handle II is pulled down to button it on the screw 9, in the manner shown in Figs. 2 and 4 of the drawing. Similarly, when the sash is removed from the window, the spring disengages the clip 3, and. is out of the latter, before the upper end of the spring is disengaged from the hook I, thus facilitating and simplifying the work of either putting a sash inplace, or of taking it out of the window, as there are no diffi cult or awkward things to be done by the fingers of the person doing the work.

What I claim as my invention is:

1. A spring contrivancefor removably holding a sash in place in a window, comprising a securing means depending from the top of the window opening, a clip formed with an open side to receive an elongated laterally resilient, longitudinally extensible spring laterally, fastening means to secure the closed side'of the clip to the sash, said spring being engageable at its upper end with said securing means, before the springengages said clip, and a device for separably securing the lower end of the spring to the sash, after the lateral entrance of said spring into said clip, when securing the sash in place, said clip being formed to hold the spring against accidental disengagement therefromand thereby engaging'the spring to hold the top of the sash against outward displacement, but the spring being laterally removable from said clip before the upper end of the spring is detached from said securing means, when removing the sash from the window.

2. A structure as specified in claim 1, with said fastening means comprising only a single screw, and said clip having means entering the sash to prevent turning of said clip on said screw.

3. A structure as specified in claim 1, with said clip mounted adjacent one side of the window and the open side of said clip facing away from the adjacent side of the window, so that said spring swings toward the other side to release it laterally from said clip.

4. A structure as specified in claim 1, with the upper portion of said spring bending away from the sash above said clip, so that the upper portion of the spring thus exerts a definite and positive horizontal pressure on said clip, but with the lower portion of .the spring vertical, when the sash is in place, thereby more effectively holding the sash against outward displacement.

5. A structure as specified in claim 1, with said device requiring endwise downward movement to disconnect it from the sash.

6. A structure as specified in claim 1, with said clip being rigid and holding the side of the spring against the sash, and the resilience of the spring making resilience in the clip unnecessary, as the spring yields transversely to distortion when forced into the clip and do the same when removed therefrom. i

7. A structure as specified in claim 1, with said clip being rigid and holding the side of the spring against the sash, and the resilience of the spring making resilience in the clip unnecessary, as the spring yields transversely to distortion when forced into the clip and do the same when removed therefrom, the spring being bent away from the sash, a distance above said clip, by forc ing it into the clip, and thus exerting a tension on the latter horizontally to hold the upper end of the sash tightly in place, but with the lower portion of the spring vertical, when the sash is vertical in the window.

8. A structure as specified in claim 1, wherein said securing means and said spring are interengageable against separation in predetermined directions, said clip being disposed at a point with relation to the upper end of the spring so as to guard against movement of the upper end of the spring in a direction permitting separation from the securing means.

9. A structure as specified in claim 1, with the resilience of the spring. being sufiicient for its engagement with and disengagement from said clip, the latterbeing fastened at one end only to thesash.

10. A structure as specified in claim 1, with the clip being a substantial distance below the upper end of the spring, when the sash is in closed position.

AUGUST A. LARSON. 

